It's ten years since a car was built at Trollhättan. Time to buy an Anniversary edition?
It's ten years since a car was built at Trollhättan. Time to buy an Anniversary edition?Fear of the unknown prevents many of us from doing stuff we’d quite like to try if only we were brave enough. Shed used to have a long list of suggestions that he felt might have helped his marriage pinned up in his workshop, but when Mrs Shed caught sight of it she told him to shove it where the sun didn’t shine so it ended up in the septic tank via Shed’s outside khazi.
The B235R 2.3-litre four under the bonnet began life in the 1968 Saab 99, four years before its designers Triumph installed it in one of its cars. More than half a century later it’s still respected for its strength and reliability. This 2008 9-5 won’t suffer from the oil sludging that killed pre-2003 B235s because Saab modified the PCV design in 2004, extending the warranty in 2005 to 8 years or unlimited mileage.
Dynamically the 9-5 didn’t have the smooth efficiency of the German execs or the sporty appeal of Jaguar’s XF, which came out towards the end of the gen-one Saab’s run, but the Swedish saloon did have loads of space and a good specification. And of course rampant performance that you could ramp up even more. 600hp has been commonly achieved with the B235. Back in the 2000s, there was an 800hp B235 9-3.
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